1399
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| Centuries: | 13th century - 14th century - 15th century |
| Decades: | 1360s 1370s 1380s - 1390s - 1400s 1410s 1420s
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| Years: | 1396 1397 1398 - 1399 - 1400 1401 1402 |
| 1399 in topic: |
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| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1399 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
- February 3 - Death of John of Gaunt, uncle of King Richard II of England and father of Henry Bolingbroke.
- Richard II cancels the legal documents allowing the exiled Henry Bolingbroke to inherit his father's land.
- While Richard II is away on a military campaign in Ireland, Henry Bolingbroke, with exiled former Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Arundel as an advisor, returns to England and begins a military campaign to reclaim his confiscated land.
- After regaining his power, Henry Bolingbroke is urged to take the crown from the unpopular Richard II. Richard is taken prisoner upon his returns from Ireland and eventually forced to abdicate. Parliament then charges Richard with committing crimes against his subjects.
- September 30 - Parliament accepts Henry Bolingbroke as the new king.
- October 13 - Coronation of Henry IV of England.
- Thomas Arundel is restored as Archbishop of Canterbury, replacing Roger Walden.
- Faraj succeeds his father, Barquq, as Mamluk Sultan of Egypt.
- Sultan Bayezid I of the Ottoman Empire invades Mamluk occupied Syria. A rift forms between Sultan Bayezid and Timur of the Timurid Empire, who also wanted to conquer Syria.
- August 12 - Battle of the Vorskla River: Mongol Golden Horde forces led by Khan Temur Qutlugh and emir Edigu annihilate a crusading army led by former Golden Horde Khan Tokhtamysh and Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania.
- Ladislas regains the throne of Naples after overthrowing King Louis II.
- King Jogaila becomes sole ruler of Poland after the death of his co-ruling wife, Queen Jadwiga.
- Abu Said Uthman III succeeds Abdullah as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in present-day Morocco.
- The Principality of Achaea (now southern Greece) resists an invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
- November 1 - Accession of John VI, Duke of Brittany
| Gregorian calendar | 1399 MCCCXCIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2152 |
| Armenian calendar | 848 ԹՎ ՊԽԸ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -445 – -444 |
| Berber calendar | 2349 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1943 |
| Burmese calendar | 761 |
| Chinese calendar | 4035/4095-11-24 (戊寅年十一月廿四日) — to — 4036/4096-12-4(己卯年十二月初四日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1115 – 1116 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1391 – 1392 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5159 – 5160 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1454 – 1455 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1321 – 1322 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4500 – 4501 |
| Holocene calendar | 11399 |
| Iranian calendar | 777 – 778 |
| Islamic calendar | 801 – 802 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōei 6 (応永6年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2059 (皇紀2059年) |
| Julian calendar | 1444 |
| Korean calendar | 3732 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1942 |
[edit] Births
- William Canynge, English merchant (approximate date; died 1474).
- Zara Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia (died 1468).
- Rogier van der Weyden (other date is 1400).
[edit] Deaths
- January 4 - Nicolau Aymerich, Catalan theologian and inquisitor
- February 3 - John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (born 1340)
- May 12 - Demetrius I Starszy, Prince of Trubczewsk (killed in battle) (born 1327)
- July 13 - Peter Parler, German architect (born 1330)
- September 22 - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician (born 1366)
- November 1 - John V, Duke of Brittany (born 1339)
- Spytek z Melsztyna, Polish nobleman
- July 17 - Queen Jadwiga, joint ruler of Poland.
- William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (born 1350)
- Sultan Barquq of Egypt
- Trần Ngung, former ruler of Tran Dynasty Vietnam (forced to commit suicide)af:1399
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